Hey there friends. So today I'm going to answer a question from Lean or Leon I'm not sure how to say your name sorry but this is asked in the react hooks channel of the discord the KCD discord under the Epic Reactive category and it's talking about exercise six where we show it's it's an exercise on managing state for asynchrony, so we've got to use effect in there and stuff.

And we have this status status and that is the status of the promise. So whether it's idle pending reject,Ed or resolved and we render different things based on that. And in my solution, I just do an if statement. So if status is idle, then this outsift status is pending then render this also status is rejected then do this.

And that I I was pretty happy with that. But I there are obviously several different ways to do this and one natural thing that people sometimes will do is a switch statement which is what this individual suggested why don't we do the switch statement, but then they got some pushback on that.

Hat from a co-worker. I think that suggested using an object instead and so you can say here's a a object that has the status value so you have idle pending rejected results and each one of those is assigned a as a property the the value is going to be the react element that should be rendered.

So I mentioned that I would talk about this. So in the next version of Epic React, so if you look in this repo on the next branch, I actually switched to not only TypeScript.And but I also switched to using a switch statement Just because I think that it makes a little bit more sense in this context.

Like I said, I often don't use switch statements. I prefer if else or maybe even ternaries but in this case, it just seemed to look a little cleaner and so I use the switch statement there. Definitely know hard and fast rule on that. It's just try them both and pick the one that you dislike the least.

Um, but I did mention in this discord chat that it actually is really not a good idea to use the object approach for something like this. And the reason is that,Sometimes you're gonna be switching on something like in our case we're displaying a Pokemon. And if you're going to create React Elements that reference properties of that Pokemon then you you're going to be accessing properties that may not exist based on the status like if you have idle the Pokemon could be null.

And so if you're even though those different properties of that object won't actually get rendered you do have to access those properties to create the React elements. So, that's why you don't want to use the object form in this case at all. So, I hopeThat's useful and interesting and I hope you have an awesome day.

Goodbye.